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Best Profiles under test

Attila's been busy this week. Leaping on to the first S60 3rd Edition profile manager like a cat upon a mouse, here he puts Best Profiles under the microscope. And yes, yes, there's now a competitor. Err.... Attila, don't go just yet, I've got another for you to look at...

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 18:43, May 12th

The Lonely Jukebox

Lonely Cat Games' Jukebox is a third party alternative to S60's built-in Music player. But how does it fare? Ewan tests Jukebox on the Nokia N91 and E61i in his full review.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 12:44, May 11th

Arghhh. Not Sudoku?! It's Sensible Sudoku 2!

We don't normally 'do' Sudoku games on AAS - there are just too many - but our own Attila turns out to be something of a Sudoku connoisseur. He's researched the ultimate, the very best Sudoku implementation for all Symbian OS smartphones - and brings us his review of Sensible Sudoku 2.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 06:05, May 11th

Google Maps for Mobile extends official support

Want another free alternative to Nokia's free Smart2go? Although available unofficially for much of the world for a while now, it seems that Google has made support for Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom official for its Google Maps for Mobile Java app. If you've got a meaty data tariff or Wi-Fi, it features mapping, routing, satellite images and a business directory. And traffic info, though this wouldn't work for me. See also their YouTube slideshow.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 05:40, May 11th

Tackling charger wastage?

It's all very well Nokia saying that it's starting to introduce better on screen alerts to get people to unplug their phone chargers from the wall in order to save energy and the earth. But I can't see most people doing it. Why don't companies simply make chargers/adapters that don't heat up when there's no device drawing charging current?

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 19:38, May 10th

Calling All Hackers - Yahoo Hackday Coming To London

Have you got the creative bug? Then you'll be glad to know that Hackday Europe is coming. Yahoo will be taking over Alexandra Plaxce in London and opening the doors for hackers, programmers, designers, developers engineers and other interested people to come along and 'do stuff.' Results from the first event in Sunnyvale, CA, resulted in such wonderful delights as the FlickrHandbag and the YBox. More information and forms to request an invite are at Hackday.

# Posted by Ewan in News || Comments 09:43, May 10th

Navigation to fall to the all conquering smartphone?

An interesting eWeek story on how navigation will be the next technology taken into the mass market by phones and smartphones. Should the likes of TomTom and Navtec be getting worried? (via S-F)

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 07:52, May 10th

Nokia E90 - Web and Work (reviewed)

In the next part of our truly huge review of the Nokia E90 Communicator, I look at how it handles Office and other commonly emailed documents, plus I explore what you can (and can't) yet do online in the S60 3rd Edition FP1 Web browser. Warning: broadband needed - this review section is very heavy on images, even after thumbnailing them down.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 21:50, May 9th

Sci-fi level noise reduction on the way

This looks like technology that could go mainstream very soon. The Sensear system employs multiple mikes in order to calculate even the direction of ambient noise and then apply noise reduction to both in-ear sound and also your outgoing voice. Via IntoMobile

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 11:35, May 9th

The Ultimate P1i Gallery...

Fresh from his hands-on with the spanking new UIQ 3-powered Sony Ericsson P1i in London last night, Rafe brings us a full gallery of P1i photos and helpful comments. There will be a full text preview along shortly!

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 07:55, May 9th

The Nokia E61i - the Applications and the Verdict

In the third and final part of his review, Ewan reports on the application set in the Nokia E61i and also pronounces his verdict. What are its strengths? Is it worth dumping the E61 for? What about new users?

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 06:29, May 9th

All the way back.... to the P1i

P1i Sony Ericsson has announced a number of feature phones plus a Symbian-based UIQ 3-running successor to their M600i and P990i. The P1i has the best of both devices (though no P series 'flip' this time), with an upgraded camera (3.2mp), a dual function keyboard, Wi-Fi, VoIP support, A2DP and 3G data, for European networks. Best of all, there will be 4 times the free RAM, compared to the P990i! The full press release and photos below.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 15:34, May 8th

Ubuntu Linux for Mobile Phones

The BBC News website is running a story about the mobile version of Ubuntu, the popular distribution of the Linux operating system. There's no information on which handsets it would actually run on, if any, and no manufacturers are mentioned. However, Ubuntu for mobiles is apparently due for a first release in October 2007. The BBC has used a stock image of the E61i, but this doesn't appear to have any connection to the story itself.

# Posted by krisse in News || Comments 13:55, May 8th

Theme DIY under scrutiny

Zensis' Theme DIY utility gets put under the microscope by a rightfully picky Krisse. How useful is it and what are the limitations?

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 07:05, May 8th

Darla and the N75

AAS friend Darla has been taking her first steps with Nokia's new 3G clamshell for the USA market - here's her initial verdict on the N75. Pity there's no actual 3G signal in her area though...

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 06:19, May 7th